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Author	tiwoc
Recipients	docs@python, tiwoc
Date	2010-11-19.21:31:55
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Message-id	<1290202316.91.0.542826237315.issue10463@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Cite from http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html > xml.etree.ElementTree.parse(source, parser=None) > > Parses an XML section into an element tree. source is a filename or > file object containing XML data. parser is an optional parser > instance. If not given, the standard XMLParser parser is used. > Returns an ElementTree instance. The last sentence should be "Returns an Element instance." I verified this error for the Python versions as listed in this issue. In 2.5, the information was imprecise but correct.

Cite from http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html
> xml.etree.ElementTree.parse(source, parser=None)
>
> Parses an XML section into an element tree. source is a filename or
> file object containing XML data. parser is an optional parser
> instance. If not given, the standard XMLParser parser is used.
> Returns an ElementTree instance.

The last sentence should be "Returns an Element instance."

I verified this error for the Python versions as listed in this issue. In 2.5, the information was imprecise but correct.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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